Puzzle.



PATBNTED JUNI: 25, 19o?. R. w. KEMP, Jul

PUZZLE. APPLIoAgIoN FILED MAB.20.1907.

. W/TNESSES ATTORNEYS 1HE Nanms PETERS co., wasmwcroN, n. c,

ROBERT WESTALL KEMP,

PAIBN'I OFFICE.

JR., or Naw YORK, N. Y.

PUZZLE.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application led March 20, 1907. Serial No. 363,414.

To all whom, it 11o/Ly concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT WEsTALL KEMP, Jr., a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of New York, born ough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Puzzle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to puzzles, my more particular object being to produce a device provided with rolling bodies and so arranged as to enable the operator, by a little skill, to place the rolling bodies in various predetermined positions.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the board and rolling bodies constituting the puzzle, the rolling bodies being disposed at random; Fig. 2- is a plan view of the board showing the rolling bodies lodged in a predetermined position thereupon; and Fig. 3 is a central section through Fig. 2 upon the line 3 3 and showing the manner in which thefalse bottom of the board is supported.

A casing 4 is provided with a bottom 5 and with a glass top 6. Disposed within the casing .4 is a false bottom 7 provided with a central hole 7il and With various other holes 8, 9, arranged in a predetermined order. The false bottom 7 is further provided with other holes 10, 1l also arranged in a predetermined order. The rolling bodies are shown at 12, 13 and may be of different colors. In the instance shown there are six rolling bodies, designated 12, of one color, and another one 13 is a different color. The false bottom 7 is provided with a convex or raised portion 15, and supporting this portion is an annular piece 16. A number of blocks 17 are spaced apart and secured rigidly upon the false bottom 7, so as to space the latter from the bottom 5.

My invention is used as follows: The roll-` ing bodies 12, 13 rest upon the false bottom 7 and may be moved into different positions by inclining the casing 4 and slightly shaking or jogging the same. In this manner the rolling bodies may be caused to assume any one of several predetermined desired positions. For instance, the body 13 of one color may be lodged in the central hole 7 a, and the bodies 12, all of another color, may be grouped centrally around it, as indicated in Fig. 2.

It will be understood ythat the various groups of holes 10, 11 may be employed as lodging places for the rolling bodies and that I do not limit myself to any particular arrangement of grouping.

The constructional advantages of placing the blocks 17 under the false bottom 7 and of supporting the center of this false bottom by the annular piece 16, are very great. By this arrangement the false bottom 7 is prevented from warping and the rolling bodies are always kept in a proper condition for working the puzzle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tov secure by Letters Patent the following:

A box or casing having a number of rolling balls or objects and a false bottom provided with a raised central portion having a group of holes equal in number to the balls and constituting lodging places therefor, and surrounding grouped holes constituting obstacles to the lodging of the balls in the central holes.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT WESTALL KEMI,JUN10R.

Witnesses:

HUGH J. McGaANE,

O. TUYNMAN. 

